Procrastination

This blog follows somewhat on from the one I did last week, and that's as the title suggests about procrastinating. I said last week how my house mate had been playing christmas music a few times around the house, and how by in a way embracing that it was christmas soon, I'd slow down on the work front and be craving the impending time off from university. Well that seems to have happened.

Around this time of year at university is when a lot of courses set their deadlines for coursework, and my course wasn't any different. I handed some work in a few weeks ago, and now have two deadlines fast approaching. However the problem is that I can't seem to get into that focused, get down to work kind of mood, and the days now slowly pass with little happening to the coursework I'm soon to hand in.

Although I think that christmas is slightly to blame for why I can't seem to get much work done, I tend to procrastinate a lot anyway as well, meaning that there's twice as much not getting done. In the past I've looked into ways to stop procrastinating, such as blocking certain websites on my laptop, doing short word sprints and other techniques however none really seem to work for me. For example, to block sites such as Facebook, and Youtube on my laptop I downloaded a plug-in which allowed me to choose the sites I wanted to block out and then input a password to keep them from being accessed. The obvious problem with this technique however is that I was the one that input the password, and so after a few attempts to discourage myself and get back to work, I just gave in and put the password back in, so I could go back on the sites.

For me, I've found, the best way to actually get on with work is to go to somewhere like say the library, a place where you don't have your xbox, or t.v, etc, somewhere that feels school/work like and you should get into a work type mood. However with this you have to motivate yourself to want to go to these places to do work. Its a very evil cycle, one that when it comes down to the wire I always break and get my work done, but annoying all the same.

Hopefully next term I'll find a better way to get my work done quicker and not have the last minute dash to hand in work that I seem so familiar with these days.
Just as a last note, to quickly clarify, I am at the moment on the train writing this and not using it as another form of procrastination, however if I do put out quite a few blogs next week, then you'll know I probably should be doing work instead.
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